Daily review 08/08/2025
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5:30 pm, August 8th, 2025 - 11 comments
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This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
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You can't have it both ways.
Desire a bi-partisan approach and ignore requests to be involved in the process.
Willow-Jean Prime seems to not want to consult with stake-holders and be involved in the process. I would have thought you would be more effective for the stakeholders if you are in the loop . Doubly surprising when Tinetti was involved in the process prior to Prime's appointment.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/569413/labour-s-education-spokesperson-defiant-after-ignoring-stanford-s-ncea-meeting-requests
A mistake that will be pounced on with glee.
For sure, I didn't want to quote what Gordon Brittas said for fear of upsetting someone's dinner.
It's the defiance that's annoying. These clowns have just ridden roughshod over so many worthy issues and when an opportunity arises to be a check, a handbrake, a dissenting voice…
Prime has a good reputation as a local MP, hopefully this is just a wee 'knock-on' and she has learnt.
Why would she want to be part of the inevitable cockup?
Represent the stakeholders that aren't being listened to for starters.
But that is another point, at least acknowledge the invite and decline.
Well that's pretty slack arsed behavior from Prime,
SPP and Three/Sky just found out Paul Henry is an untrustworthy dabbler whose word means nothing. He's like a particularly stupid Labrador sniffing out the next opportunity to roll in with zero regard for the last.
Shayne Curry claps like a seal though:
https://archive.is/R6Qki
Henry must be desperate for cash, I think.
To paraphrase Wilde…the unspeakable in pursuit of the
uneatableunwatchable.IMO… moron TV.
This has a history. National had reduced spending from 35 to 30% of GDP during the 2008-2017 period. Labour and Greens agreed to the 30% figure in 2017.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/13-07-2017/to-offer-a-real-alternative-labour-and-the-greens-may-need-to-tear-up-their-fiscal-pledge.
Hipkins says in 2025, no to the 30% standard.
The Green Party did in 2019.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/118077911/green-party-scrap-budget-responsibility-rules
Thug nation hits new low.
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Russian occupation authorities in Ukraine created an online "catalog" where Ukrainian children are offered up for adoption while sorted based on physical traits like eye or hair color, a head of a Ukrainian NGO said on Aug. 6, denouncing the practice as child trafficking.
The database, which includes data on 294 children, is available on the education department of the Russian occupation authorities in Luhansk Oblast.
"Most children in this catalog were born in Luhansk Oblast before the Russian occupation and had Ukrainian citizenship," Mykola Kuleba, CEO of the Save Ukraine organization, said in an Instagram post.
"Parents of some of them were killed by occupation authorities, others were simply issued Russian identification documents to legitimize their abduction."
Ukraine has identified more than 19,500 children abducted by Russia during the full-scale war and forcibly transferred to Russia, the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, or Belarus. Only 1,480 have been brought back home.
https://kyivindependent.com/russia-launches-catalogue-of-ukrainian-children-for-adoption-sorted-by-eye-and-hair-color/